I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on Lauren Graham More Quotes by Lauren Graham More Quotes From Lauren Graham Perspective is the most important thing to have in life. Lauren Graham important-things perspective important Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore. Lauren Graham today-is-the-day can-do believe I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me. Lauren Graham important goal approval I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame. Lauren Graham literature kids art Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances. Lauren Graham truthful given mean You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier. Lauren Graham sensitive soldier may I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle. Lauren Graham introducing winner loser I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well. Lauren Graham compassion mean thinking Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with. Lauren Graham vision differences successful We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest. Lauren Graham party guests dresses That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it. Lauren Graham practice mean ideas My biggest goal was - I thought, God, if I could just be a rep company member at the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and get to play a bunch of parts in a year! And now in my work everything is about promoting it. It's not about the doing of it! Everything is: You have to sell it, and they ask you to tweet about it or do photo shoots, even for the smallest job. There's an imbalance in terms of what is actually gratifying. The stuff that is gratifying is, like I said, the day of work and the doing of it. Lauren Graham tweet term goal I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown. Lauren Graham aging trying thinking Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'. Lauren Graham long moving thinking It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV. Lauren Graham age jobs reality If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding. Lauren Graham different fun school The best you can hope for is a great collaborator. Lauren Graham collaborators great-aviation aviation The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else. Lauren Graham trying television There's nothing more important than a good story. Lauren Graham good-story important stories I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion. Lauren Graham illusion loss people
